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 Post subject: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:51 pm 
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This example from Sydney's Daily Telegraph should prove a warning, not that it's needed for you good folk,. about being careful with the keyboard.<p>The background: Police have named 16 people ''of interest'' (a list of suspects) to a State Coroner's hearing into the death of a woman on Norfolk Island.<p>What they published for first profile, a man whose picture was unavailable, in a panel listing the 16:
The person of most interest. A man who spent the night with Janelle but claims not to have sex with her (please use random silhouette).<p>
Man's name deleted for TCE post. - pw<p>[ June 01, 2004: Message edited by: Paul Wiggins ]<p>[ June 01, 2004: Message edited by: Paul Wiggins ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:16 am 
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Is the day after Memorial Day a drinking holiday, too?


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 Post subject: Re: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:36 am 
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JJ -- I haven't understood the past 100 or so posts on this board, and a couple of them were mine.<p>By the way, WTF is this,might I ask?<p>[ June 02, 2004: Message edited by: SeaRaven ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:39 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by jjmoney62:
Is the day after Memorial Day a drinking holiday, too?<hr></blockquote><p>You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.


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 Post subject: Re: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:04 am 
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Ah, but you did.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:21 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins:
<p>You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.<hr></blockquote> House of Cards????


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 Post subject: Re: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SeaRaven:
By the way, WTF is this,might I ask?
<hr></blockquote><p>High art. And another 100 or so hits for the talented Ms. Dee. N.B.: "Saddam," "Tryouts," "Nobody" and "Sheepandturtle."


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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SusanV:
House of Cards????<hr></blockquote>
Correct. An Anglophile's delight.


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 Post subject: Re: Keep instructions in polite language, as this paper has
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Paul Wiggins:

Correct. An Anglophile's delight.
<hr></blockquote>Also a non-Anglophile's. One of my all-time favorites, actually. I can still hear him saying that. He was so wonderfully diabolical!


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